This is an amazing resource.

Welcome to Smithsonian Open Access, where you can download, share, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images—right now, without asking. With new platforms and tools, you have easier access to more than 4.4 million 2D and 3D digital items from our collections—with many more to come. This includes images and data from across the Smithsonian’s 19 museums, nine research centers, libraries, archives, and the National Zoo.

What will you create?

Good post OP

Wait, you mean to tell me there's no longer e-card websites?

This is history repeating itself on the Internet. This is one of the first businesses that popped up when Internet access became widespread.

I’d be interested if I could see a photo with the quality level of the printed message and the envelope.

Docupost is setting 3 cookies on my machine when I go to your site, so it's not GDPR compliant.

As far as I can tell the address is set up only for the US, so they probably won't ship to Europe anyway

Good point, though we don't actually set any cookies, so we don't need a form as far as I understand!

Small criticism, but there's no cookie popup form in the EU, which means the site is not GDPR compliant.

Cool site! I've been mailing cards by hand but honestly i don't think it really matters if it's made by a computer in 2022? Definitely keen on using your sit. $3/card seems reasonable too.

This hummus got me fartin' like a beast

Here's some dystopia for you : Big corporations and governments will be behind the biggest AI tools in the future, they will say and show what they will be trained to say and show, and will spread ideologies, censorship Information will be filtered by AI Creativity and imagination replaced by AI Fewer human interactions

It doesn't feel like a human though... A couple of answers seemed generic

They are, indeed, very promising. However, have in mind that both those reactors are NOT being pursued for safety reasons. That is a side benefit (and ironically, a small one).

Molten salts are great at achieving high temperaturez, and cause less stress to the reactor in case you want to change the power output - a better match for the heavy renewable energy systems, and to use in high-heat industry. They have some ways to go in terms of proving technical feasibility in the long term, which will be a very long process withing the regulators.

Micro reactors are being targeted for some niche markets - remote.power generation (e.g. mining), low industrial heat, or other uses beyond energy (e.g. nuclear waste recycling/usage). Still a tough sell, as market is much smaller, and while they promise cheap prices through industrialization, you can also achieve it with SMRs.

Any talk you might hear about "we want to use X nuclear technology, because it is safer, and creates less nuclear waste" is usually a sales pitch aimed for public that have big misconceptions of it. And sometimes, in a very false and simplistic way (e.g. some micro reactors claim that passive cooling from Ambient Temperature is enough to cool down reactors. While this is true, it does not cover days where heatwaves can happen. Very likely, design will have to be changed to accommodate such High T days, as I highly doubt any regulator would just accept it as it is.

The true obstacle is the initial investment. Not even economics, which tend to be good- just investing in expertise, framework, and getting the financing costs at decent interest rates.

Nuclear is seen as very safe - including within governments. Most governments just don't want to take such investment, and decide to go on renewables, and crossing fingers for future solutions is just easier for them, as many tend to not plan ahead of their 4-year period. Much easier than trying to get controversial.

This is seen in today's news: UK, for instance, recently published that they are super invested in nuclear, and have a."very ambitious goal" of getting a lot of nuclear built by 2050. How much is a lot for them? Best case scenario: 25% of electricity capacity. Yes, only 25%.

Other technologies that are basically ready to be demonstrated also face market challenges. E.g. Thorium Reactor demonstration got halted, because they could not get a reliable source of fuel for their reactors, as there isn't a supply chain for them (yet), and not a big desire to create one. This is even despite the USA spending money to get rid of Thorium from other industries.

So while we are doing R&D for newer technologies, these tend to be for other uses that conventional nuclear is not suited for. As it stands, there is still a lot of development going on with conventional technologies, especially in Eastern Europe (SMRs with conventional designs) and many African countries (conventional Russian nuclear designs).

I guess that if most conversations in day to day cover the surface of life, it is understandable that some believe it is a lot closer than it is actually is.

> but the problem is: it sounds plausible to the layperson

Exactly. I'm an engineer, so I asked it to calculate the loading on a beam. The first attempt returned 35 grams, which is 4 orders of magnitude too small. The second attempt returned 800 kg, which is more plausible, but I'd have to do my own calcs to verify it.

It's not. In fact, it's only good at surface details. Ask it deep questions about philosophy or specifics about scientific inquiry, and it gets that stuff wrong. The response is impressive...

...but the problem is: it sounds plausible to the layperson, so the layperson doesn't know they're getting incorrect information (and the developers wouldn't know, either). This is currently a good way to spread misinformation. If this is the future, we're headed towards dystopia.

internet explorer, is that you?

And it can code as well.

You know there are ways of aggregating information through API and there are articles freely available.

If you're trying to do this one article at a time, you'll always be behind.

You might want to look at how to get content for free and pipe it into your site.

So a lot easier to do with WordPress, but Google free content. You'll find it everywhere. All you have to do is attribute it to the author. Good luck!

Yep markup blacklight still shows it there

Currently my job is able to cover all the expenses, but I do want to expand and create more quality content in the future. I think maybe doing some merchandise will allow me to keep the lights on without having to rely on ads. Thanks for the comment.

If costs of up-keep continue to grow I will consider maybe doing some merchandise to generate revenue, but I pledge to never have any sort of advertisements. Thanks!

Thanks, I will look into making things more legible.